Report: Watchdog resumes efforts to block Telegram

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (PRIME) -- The Russian communications service added several thousands of new IP addresses to block messenger Telegram from 8 a.m. Moscow time on Monday throughout the day, business daily Vedomosti reported late Monday on its website, citing blocking monitoring resource usher2.club.

A source at a connection operator confirmed that the watchdog had activated the blocking of the messenger. More than 1,000 IP addresses of proxy servers, used to cheat on muting, were blocked, the source said.

Users massively complained about failures in the messenger’s work both in desktop and mobile versions on Monday.

The service has been muting Telegram since mid-April 2018 for the messenger’s reluctance to share the decoding keys with the Federal Security Service.

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